September 22, 2025 • 42 mins
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for September 18, 2025.
0:30 We dive into New Orleans’ proposed Fair Chance Amendment—a charter change meant to discourage discrimination against people with prior convictions.
Plus we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
13:30 We take a look at Trump's wins, the state of the economy, and tariffs. And we reflect on why patience—once a defining American virtue—feels in short supply today.
23:00 We break down the Louisiana National Guard’s official statement clarifying they are not yet mobilized but remain fully prepared to act when ordered.
We Dig Deep into New Orleans’ ongoing affordable housing crisis and why government subsidies may be making the problem worse.
32:30 Get TrimROX from Victory Nutrition International for 20% off. Go to vni.life/agr and use the promo code AGR20.
33:30 We break down a Baton Rouge news story warning about an “early spike” in respiratory illnesses across Louisiana. We discuss a so-called new COVID variat nicknamed "razor blade throat," and we look into whether these stories are politically motivated.
Plus, we have a little fun guessing which law schools have had the most Supreme Court justices. Play along!
40:30 And we finish off with some good news from Magnolia Pit BBQ. The barbeque crunch wrap is back!
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0:30 We dive into New Orleans’ proposed Fair Chance Amendment—a charter change meant to discourage discrimination against people with prior convictions.
Plus we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
- A former Lafayette Louisiana Prosecutor has been found guilty on charges of bribery, conspiracy, and obstruction of Justice.
- There's been a partial settlement reached in the collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans 6 years ago.
- Caddo Parish School Board extended the contract of new Superintendent Keith Burton for another year.
13:30 We take a look at Trump's wins, the state of the economy, and tariffs. And we reflect on why patience—once a defining American virtue—feels in short supply today.
23:00 We break down the Louisiana National Guard’s official statement clarifying they are not yet mobilized but remain fully prepared to act when ordered.
We Dig Deep into New Orleans’ ongoing affordable housing crisis and why government subsidies may be making the problem worse.
32:30 Get TrimROX from Victory Nutrition International for 20% off. Go to vni.life/agr and use the promo code AGR20.
33:30 We break down a Baton Rouge news story warning about an “early spike” in respiratory illnesses across Louisiana. We discuss a so-called new COVID variat nicknamed "razor blade throat," and we look into whether these stories are politically motivated.
Plus, we have a little fun guessing which law schools have had the most Supreme Court justices. Play along!
40:30 And we finish off with some good news from Magnolia Pit BBQ. The barbeque crunch wrap is back!
Follow us:
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
It is time for us to realize that we're too
great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I have a dream, but one day this nation will
rise up, live out the true meaning of its tree.
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Speaker 1 (01:00):
This is American Ground Radium Stephen Palmer, lewissar evalone.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
So the City of New Orleans, Noleans is considering an
amendment to their city charter. Okay, and it's it's more
it's more aspirational than anything else. But what members of
the city council are asking for, they're asking for the
voters to approve an amendment to the city charter to
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protect people with a conviction history can protect them from
what arbitrarily and unreasonably discrimination against them. So they call
this the Fair Chance Amendment, and they say it is
going to serve as a declaration of the city's support
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of giving people with past convictions a second chance. So
it will it will be amended. They will amend the
municipal the New Orleans Municipal Bill of Rights. There's a
bill of rights. New Orleans has written a bill of rights.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
You knew this, Yeah, but I just have a feeling
I all those things are actually rights, some of the
I have a feeling most that's actually privileges.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Okay, So this is largely aspirational right to say, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Because how can you tell someone that they have to
hire somebody who's been convicted of crimes? Maybe not just
one crime, maybe multiple crimes. Because again, when you look
at the crime stats, most crimes are committed by people
who've already been arrested for committing other crimes. So if
you're trying to make.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Sure I've got these numbers, here.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Go ahead. I'm just saying that, if you're trying to
make sure that you're hiring good people, sometimes you will
look at you know what, this person's been in jail
three four times for assault, for rape, for a bunch
of other things. I don't think I want that person
around my other employees.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
But there are many people who get out of jail
and say they are constantly turned down for jobs. It's
a problem, can't find housing because that they say they
were they are being discriminated against due to their status
as a And then this news news article. It says,
a formally incarcerated person.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Okay, for having been a convicted criminal.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
But at the same time, let's look at the numbers.
And they got the numbers right here. All right, one
in three Americans has some sort of criminal history.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh wow. And that that is.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
According to the National Conference of State Legislature. So roughly
forty five million Americans have a misdemeanor conviction or convictions.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Oh can misdemeanor? All right?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Nineteen million?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Does that? Does that include traffic violations misdemeanors if I guess,
if it rises to that occasion in that particular jurisdiction. Okay,
But nevertheless, nineteen million have a felony conviction. So and
and by the way, according to the Department of Justice,
Louisiana was ranked second in the nation for imprisonment rates
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in twenty twenty two, right behind Mississippi. Okay, So the
question is, I, look, I've got no problem with aspirations.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
But let's be honest. Aspirations don't keep communities safe. Aspirations
don't protect your family. When a repeat offender, you know,
might might get a job in a position that because
you're being because that employer may be aspirational. And look,
(04:38):
I believe in second chances as well. I do too,
don't get me wrong, but.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
This should be something that the government starts to mandate
because I guarantee you. Let's say, so, let's say you
put this bill of rights in for New Orleans. Oh,
you've got to hire criminals. Okay, So I get, you know,
a convicted rapist that comes in and they're they're one
to the I wanted to be an employee in my company,
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and now I have to hire that convicted rapist. You
don't because the city of New Orleans is telling me
I got to hire a convicted race Well.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
It's aspirational. Obviously you can make that decision.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And if it's aspirational, then why you wasting all of
our time. Your job is not to be putting up
little sunshine quotes on the wall. Your job is to
be telling. It is to make sure that the roads
are clean, that the street lights are on that the
drainage ditches are clear, that the trash is picked up.
That's your damn job when run the city. I don't
need you telling me little poetry about butterflies. I don't
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need aspirational for my city council. I need functional.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
No, I understand, but with significant amount of their constituents
who are have formally incarcerated individuals okay, who apparently are
having difficulty getting employment within the City of New Orleans
are getting housing in the City of New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, so that's a big is committing crime.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
But it's the same time I think the city council
is doing their job.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
No, they're not. They're not doing their job.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
They're not representing their constituents, the needs of their constituents,
the needs of their constituents. Say, look, when I get
out of jail, you know, the City of New Orleans
ought to make a statement. And that's really what this
is all about. I'm not saying that it makes one
bit of difference. But at the same time, government, if it.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Doesn't make one a bit of a difference, then why
are they doing. They're spending time doing something, and every
minute they spend doing something that doesn't make a difference
is a minute they could be spending doing something that
does make a difference. You know, what would help these
folks is if we had less crime on the streets,
so that there would be less fewer people actually being
thrown into prison. So what can the city do to
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cut down on crime in the first place. Maybe we
need to do a surge of police officers into certain areas,
which is part of what they've been doing, which has
been lowering crime. See that's an action that I can
actually benefit future generations because then you're ending up a
few people getting into this mess in the first place.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
But do you think that the city council is saying
with this what do they call this again? Hold on?
They call this the the Fair Chance Amendment, the Fair
Chance Amendment. Let's not what it is, Okay, but hold on.
If these city council members believe that those who are
(07:25):
formally incarcerated have been arbitrarily and unreasonably discriminated against, okay,
and they pass this fair Chance Amendment.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Wait, why were they discriminated because they were in jail
for prison for crimes. That's not arbitrary, but that's not unfair.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
But at the same time, people do turn their lives around.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
They do, but that should be up to the individual
judgment of the person doing the hiring. If you're on
the city council and you've got somebody that you think
is being unfairly discriminated against, then hire them yourselves. Your
job is not to substitute your judgment for that of
the people who run businesses in the city of New Orleans.
That's a socialist mindset. When you start thinking that because
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you've been elected to the city council you are so
much wiser than everybody else in the city, then you
do not belong on the city council anymore. You aren't
smarter than everybody else. So you're just know, do you
think to some degree by passing this fair Chance amendment?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
And of course it's.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
And again if it's just aspiration, okay.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
But if you pass this this fair chance are do
you think that you are saying crime doesn't matter?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I mean you think what.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You're saying is what you're saying by passing this is
if you are concerned about someone who's been in jail
recommitting a crime, but this time against your employees, you're
a bigot. That's what the city Council is saying with this,
they're calling business owners in the city of New Orleans
bigots for having gone. You know what, I don't know
if I want to have somebody who's been arrested for
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rape around my female employees, maybe that's not a good idea.
And the city Council's like, we know better than you. Jack,
that's not your job. And when you start being that
arrogant in office, it is time for you to get
out of office.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
But people do deserve a second chance, and that's up.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
To the people who are doing the hiring to give
it to them of their own free will. Let's get
to the top three things you need Noble for tomorrow. First,
you can need over from our former lafia. Louisiana prosecutor
has been found guilty on charges of bribery, conspiracy, and
(09:35):
obstruction of justice. Gary Haynes had run the fifteenth Judicial
District Attorney's pre trial diversion program. He used his position
to get bribes from businesses involved in that program. Two
other co conspirators and a businessman had already played guilty
and testified against Hayes in the trial. Ten years ago.
Hayes' wife was convicted of bribery in a separate case
and spent three years in prison herself.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Oh do you think he got a fair chance? Do
you think she got a fair chance? Maybe they needed
the fair chance amendment.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
See that's the whole point here. I mean, that's going
to be up to their future employer. But if you're
a future DA and you hire this guy again to
run a pre trial diversion program, I think the voters
have a right to go. I don't think you're making
the right choice here. Second thing you needed, but fromorrow.
There has been a partial settlement reached in the collapse
of the hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans six years ago.
Attorneys for four hundred workers, bystanders and business owners say
(10:24):
they've reached a deal with the hotel's owner for the
damages suffered by those individuals. The details of the deal
were not released and are not expected to be released
to the public, and this doesn't include the lawsuits against engineers, contractors,
and a steel manufacturer. Back in twenty nineteen, the top
three floors of the eighteen story building collapsed, killing three
people and injuring more and causing other businesses in the
areas to be closed.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
As look you know it may sound a little harsh,
but I think LaToya has blood on her hands here
because there were two people that died in that tragic accident.
And part of the reason was that.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Were there are three people who died in the Appay,
they're three. There was a body that was left exposed
out into the public for thirty months. Right, I thought
it was only two, but there's three. One was recovered early,
the other two were therefore.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Nevertheless, it was a failure on the part of New
Orleans City government for inspect shop.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Absolutely and the third thing you needed before tomorrow caatepair
schools are sticking with their man. The school board extended
the contract of Superintendent Keith Burton for another year. His
first one year contract was going to end on September thirtieth.
Since Burton became the superintendent, the district hast scene increases
in reading mass scores across grade levels. Board president Jasmine
Green said extending Burton's contract for another year was about
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demonstrating stability in leadership to the state school board. Burton said,
I'm humbled by the board's vote of confidence and grateful
for the opportunity to continue serving this community. Okay, yeah,
all right. Look, Kettle schools are making a turnaround, and
that's a good thing. We'll back stick around callers.
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Speaker 1 (13:15):
Welcome back to Mecca Ground Radio Steven Barr with Lewis
sar Avlony.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Well, Trump keeps winning and winning, It keeps winning and winning.
He said we would get tired of winning.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, and I'm not tired of I know you're very
you're exhausted from it. I'm like, I'm not tired of winning.
I'm not ever going to get tired of winning. I'm like,
I'm like, you know, Yankees fans back in the day.
I just I don't ever get tired of winning.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
But I think the economy is turning around. I think
a lot of folks simply look, you've got to have patience. Sure,
you can't just jump to conclusions here in terms of saying, well,
this isn't working for ten minutes. You know, we have
lost patients in this country. Okay, I think worldwide.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
But look what part of the Trump economy wasn't working
even for ten minutes. I mean we've been told, oh,
inflation's gonna go up. Well, inflation hasn't gone up while
Donald Trump's been in office. Oh, egg price is going
to go. Egg prices went down. Gas prices have gone
down in most states. I mean Washington States now seeing
their most expensive gas ever. But that's because of local
(14:22):
decisions there, it's not because of Donald Trumph. A whole
bunch of people are going to be fired. The only
people really being fired across the country are either illegal
aliens or government workers. The rest of the economy seems
to be doing pretty darn well. And look, I'm not
going to say that it's the boom years of the
first Trump administration yet, but there has been a lot
(14:46):
of change. With the new tariff coming in, the new
tariff structure coming in, that's a big change in how
the economy works. I think that's going to filter through.
We first had to get this Tax Cut and Job
Act that all those those tax cuts from twenty seventeen,
we had to get those renewed so that we would
keep those going. That was gonna put a little bit
(15:08):
of a pause on the economy expanding. Now that it's
been passed, I think there are businesses that are going,
you know what, we're gonna We're gonna go ahead and
expand now. So again, I haven't seen any part of
the economy that I would say, oh, that's a downturn
and that's Trump's fault.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Well, I think for a lot of folks, they say
tear us have actually increased costs.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
But the data says haven't. Wholesale wholesale prices last month,
we're actually negative.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Okay, But back on that subject about patients though, okay,
because I mean kind of switching gears here. I mean,
we live in an age where patience is dead. I
mean it's it's you know what I'm saying. And I
think it's because of social media and Twitter and Facebook
and TikTok and Instagram.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Life just goes faster. I think communications are faster, travels faster,
But it's rewiring our brains. Yeah, I mean we used
to be built on patients in this country. I mean
the founding fathers. I mean they didn't win independence overnight. Yeah,
I mean the revolution was years.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Of sacrifice and setbacks and perseverance. And I mean civil
rights I mean that didn't happen in a week. I
mean it took decades, right of of of effort and
blood and sweat and tears.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And I think you could argue it shouldn't have taken decades,
but yes it did. Patients, though, Yes, we are short
attention span theater people these days. You know, there's a
there's a trend going on online young people. They call
it They're gonna get on an airplane and they say
they're gonna raw dog the flight on the airplane. You
ever heard this, I'm gonna raw dog a flight on
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air on the airplane. Have you heard this? No, a
raw dog?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
So what that means is they're gonna be on an
airplane and they're not gonna read a book. They're not
gonna get on their phone, they're not gonna get on
their iPad or their computer. They're just gonna sit there
for the entire flight. And you and I just took
a flight, right, You and I flew up to New York,
flew back, and we actually were in four flights, right,
So we went from Shreeport up to Atlanta. On that
(17:08):
first flight. I didn't do anything on that flight. I
just sat. I just sat.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I noticed that, but I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Right, But there are a lot of people that's like,
oh my gosh, what a hero. He's able to just
sit there and not do anything. I can't do that, man,
It wasn't a challenge. I just didn't do anything. I
didn't feel like doing anything. I just sat there and
enjoyed the flight and enjoyed some of the you know,
the quiet time of not having to be on my device,
(17:38):
not having to be writing, not having to be reading.
Just I was just sitting there. A lot of people
don't have that attention span anymore. And I think one
of the other parts about not having an attention span,
not having the ability to just be still, is that
there is anxiety that builds up and then that ultimately
(17:58):
leads to fear. Right, So a lot of people are
concerned about the Trump economy because they're not willing to
sit still for just a minute. Anxiety builds up and
then they give into fear. Oh no, the tariffs are
going to bring down the whole economy. Everything is oh doom, doom, doom,
doom doom. There's some economists who say that this is
going to cost me my job. Look, man, just sit wait,
(18:23):
wait and see you're panicking. Isn't going to make any
of this better. It doesn't. If anything, it makes your
judgment worse.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
But change if you want to change, whether you're going
to change yourself, yeah, for example, some sort of personal
growth or self improvement.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
It doesn't happen overnight.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
No, it takes time and discipline. And that's one of
the things about the tariffs, and that's why. So there's
an announcement today the Supreme Court is going to hear
the tariff's case in November, I think November fifth. And
there's a reason why that is really important because we've
just tried the tariffs at them on. But patience is
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being persistent doing what you're doing in a persistent way.
We've just put these tariffs into place. We have not
had a chance to be patient with the tariffs and
see what they're going to do. And the courts could
completely rip out the tariffs overnight, and then all these
trade deals we've done with the entire rest of the
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world would immediately collapse and we'd have to go figure
something else out, and it would we would lose a
lot of the leverage that Donald Trump had to make
these negotiations, and we would The biggest thing is we
wouldn't be able to practice patients with the tariffs. They'd
be gone before we could be patient about it.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Let's see the and and maybe this is a separate topic,
but we always seem to focus on you know, we're impatient,
and we always focus on what's not right. Like, for example,
Brian Kelly, the coach of the LSU Tigers, he got
a question from a reporter was basically saying, you know,
what are you going to do about. I think it
was his was I think the question was the defense
(20:03):
gave up too many yards in the third quarter of
this game over the weekend, okay, And he wasn't having
any of it, and he got very heated, and he said, look,
you just focus on the fact that we won the game. Right,
it's a w right, And yes, these other things need
to continue to be worked on, but it's a win.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And in the third week of the season, it's a win.
I mean LSU walked off that feel victorious, right.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
And and and this is you know again, I think
you look at President Trump. A lot of the criticism
of President Trump in terms of his policies, in terms
of what it means and for example, you know, deporting
folks and though that's that's means spirited, that's not what
America is, et cetera. And you don't know what you're
(20:53):
and and some of the things he says, yeah that
some of it might be a little bit out there,
but at the end of the if you give it
a little time, right, Like for example, back in twenty fifteen,
when he came down the Golden Escalator, he started talking
about illegal immigration.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Up until then, no one had ever talked about that.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
But well, I mean people had talked about illegal certainly
not to the degree that we came about it. But
if folks had been patient, instead of you know, just
lashing out at him and saying that he's racist, he
doesn't like brown skinned people. He thinks that that all
you know, Mexicans are are rapists and criminals. Instead of
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doing their own research and figuring it out right, they
jumped to conclusion.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
We're trying to figure out where he was coming from.
There was no desire, certainly among the press to figure
out where Donald Trump was coming from, why he was
thinking things the way he was thinking. There's just no
curiosity about that.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I guess all I'm saying is is that, yes, we
have lost our patients in this country and some times
planting siegs, you've got it, you've got to water it,
you've got to care for it, and then one day
you got this bountiful hot harvest.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Right, Okay, That's all I'm saying. Well, and when we
get that, I won't be tired of winning. I just
won't be because I'm patient. I'm patient with my winning.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Good I'm glad to hear that we'll be back.
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Speaker 1 (22:58):
Welcome back to American Guy Radio, Stephen.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Okay, so apparently the Louisiana National Guard is not mobilized,
not ready quite yet to go into action because you.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Know there's all this to go into action for what
within the.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
State of Louisiana. Because the Trump administry, I.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Should say, the Louisiana National Guards ready to jump into
action at a moment's notice. We had a storm, they'd
show up. I say, the Louisiana National Guards a bunch
of professionals. They know what they're doing. They're ready to
jump into action anytime you call on them.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
No, they certainly are. However, the Louisiana National Guard director
of Public Affairs said, and I quote, we are not
mobilized in Louisiana. If and when we are ordered, we
will support. We do not speculate about potential operations and
their associated costs.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Okay, So they're ready. If they get called boom, they go.
They just haven't been called, and so they aren't. They
aren't gearing up, they aren't ready to I mean, because
why would you do that. In the military, you don't
start preparing for a mission that hasn't been given to
you yet. You do what you're supposed to do in
the moment. You don't try and guess what your your
superior officers are going to tell you to do. So
(24:11):
he's absolutely right on that. Until and unless the President
of the United States and the governor of the state
of Louisiana say we're going to mobilize the National Guard
and send them into New Orleans and Baton Rouge and Shreeport.
They aren't putting up hotel rooms in New Orleans, Baton
Rouge and Streeport for the National Guard. That that's just
not what they do.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
So if he's I guess the National Guard's going into
Memphis right now? Yeah, Apparently there was a court order
that said that he could not send troops or National
Guard troops into Chicago or into Illinois. I think Governor
Pritzker may have won this court battle.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
That would be a just a judge saying that it'll
go up to court and and the and again. This
one of those where it's kind of get slapped down.
These these padly little judge just think that they know
more than the President of the United States, and they
get slapped down time and time and time again. If
the President orders them in and he has just cause
(25:09):
to do it, then he'll be able to do it.
You don't get to just block it because you hate
Trump well and not how the judicial system is supposed
to work.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
And I know there's a lot of folks that say,
we don't need an occupation, so to speak, since the
left might put it.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
It's not an occupant. I gotta tell you something. They're
parts of New Orleans that are already occupied.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Well, no, louis Yeah, by criminality go, I mean Louisiana
has some of the most we do. I mean we
have some of the most dangerous cities in the country,
New Orleans, Baton Rouge.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
And I do want to be fair that the crime
in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Streetport. While back in
twenty twenty three, twenty twenty two it was at the
top of the charts for the entire country, the crime
in all three cities has come down, especially in Shreaport,
but also in New Orleans, and in Baton Rouge it
has been coming down. Baton Rouge is probably not as
fast as the other two.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
No, no, no, And you're right. I mean, when the guard says, hey,
we're not moized, that's not a denial. No, that's professionalism,
it's right, that's discipline. That's the military saying we don't
move until the order comes down. But when it does,
they will be will be ready.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Let's stick deep, going down, down down. So I ran
across an article in the Center Square. They say the
city of New Orleans has poured tens of millions of
dollars into building and subsizing housing since twenty twenty, but
the city's real estate market remains among the worst in
the country for metropolitan areas. They say the city is
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putting millions of dollars into building quote affordable housing, affordable housing.
As of twenty twenty four, the city committed fifty four
million to produce one two hundred new units by twenty
twenty five, and has committed sixty two million to fund
eleven projects for rehabilitation or new construction, including twenty one
million in federal HUD funds. Currently, eleven projects are still
(26:57):
waiting to secure developer contracts with twenty five millions attached.
All right, So so you use the word subsidy. That's
what they that's what that's what the city, that's what
the Center Square us. Okay, but see subsidies. This is
this the big idea from government bureaucrats who think they're
smarter than the market. Right, They want to subsidize some
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economic activity.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
They it never works. Never, they can't because government has
no business trying to do what only free people and
free markets can do. That is allocate resources, set priorities,
and create prosperity. Government does not create wealth, right, and
government can't create affordable housing. Government can create slums, but
(27:44):
it can't create affordable housing. Look, we're talking about more than.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
A million, I'm sorry, one hundred million dollars in funding
for building or rebuilding houses in New Orleans. That's what
the city government of New Orleans has been spending. The
city government is paying for. That's not private developers. The government.
And by the way, same government's looking at what one
hundred million dollars budget shortfall next year. I can kind
of think of a pretty easy way to solve that
budget problem. Just cut out all the spending for all
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the subsidized housing.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Well, certainly, But you know how you fix the affordable
housing issue. You know how you fix that.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Well, I've got a couple of ideas.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Population, Well that's one bringing people in to that market.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
All right. Yeah, the government can't bring people in. I
know that.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
I know that, But I'm saying that to the extent
that you have more people seeking affordable housing means you
will build. They will be building more housing. That's how
the market works.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
So not only is the city government giving out money
to developers to create affordable housing, but that money isn't
actually making the housing more affordable. This is again from
the Center Square. Many of the apartments build with city
or federal help rent for prices far above what many
New Orleanians can afford. The infol Base and apartments constructed
with public dollars list one bedroom unit starting at one
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three h thirty nine dollars a month. Saint Bernard's Circle apartment,
subsidized with one point five million from the city, rent
for one thy two hundred dollars for a one bedroom
and one thousand, five hundred for a two bedroom. Under
Hudd's Affordability standard, which caps rent at thirty percent of income.
A renter would need to earn about sixty thousand dollars
a year to afford a two bedroom unit at Saint Bernard.
(29:20):
So despite all of this spending, New Orleans, housing isn't
even affordable here. So how do you make housing more affordable?
There are two ways I will argue you make housing
more affordable. Safety and the free market.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Safety.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
All right, so let's try. Let's start out of this. Okay,
I'm going to argue crime in a city will drive
up the overall cost of housing in that city even
as it drives down home values and real crime area.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
I disagree.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Here's out. I disagree. Here's out. First, crime will drive
down home values in high crime areas. We both agree
on that.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
No, it when it drives it down in high crime areas,
it drives it down across across the city, across the community,
even in non high crime areas.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
But the people who want to move out of that
crime area, they want to move to another part of
the city is a little safer, yes, or they move
or they'll leave the city all together. But if they
want to move somewhere else in the city that's safer,
what then happens is you drive up the demand in
those parkets of the city. I can see that, Okay,
so they've got to live somewhere. So you're driving up
demand in specific safe neighborhoods while driving down demand and
(30:27):
dangerous ones. You end up with super expensive neighborhoods and
super poor ones and not much in between, which is
part of what New Orleans has got.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
But that's only if those folks that are trying to
first of all, that they can even afford to move
out of high crime areas, if they're going to stay
within that same community. But many times they move across
state lines, or they move a parish or two over.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
That's right, And so then you're driving up the travel
costs for those people you are.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
But what I'm saying to you is it drives down.
It drives the property values down, especially every now.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
The free market will lower housing costs if you let it.
If you decrease government regulations, developers will build new housing
to meet the demand. If you increase government regulations and
interference in the free market, then the cost of development
goes up, and the developers will pass those costs onto
buyers and renters. Well.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
And if the government is focused on low income housing.
For example, the builders in that community, they're not going
to even target low to mid income families, so their
government's doing it for they're going to target the high income,
more expensive, wealthier neighborhoods because.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Why compete with the government, And so it ends up
nobody's doing it. Nobody's building low income housing even though
the government says they are.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Because the government's subsidizing.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
It, and that process drives up the cost. It's counterintuitive,
but shouldn't we learn by now.
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Speaker 4 (33:13):
Stephen Power, Win Batton, Rude BRUEs doctor orso doctor orso
with the Open health Care Clinic. I don't know who
that is, but this reporter found this doctor, and this
doctor said that if you've noticed that folks are sick
with cold like symptoms, it may be because of changes
(33:40):
in weather or activities, or even being in proximity to
others at football games. Now, now, first of all, well,
I mean, the only reason why it could be all
of those things, and that has been true since the
dawn of time.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Well, I mean, the only reason by being around other
people you get cold like symptoms is if they had cold.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
But you're always around people, every year, every year, around people.
But he goes on to say, you might want to
think about your vaccination plan.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
My vaccination plan.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Yeah, vaccination plan.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Okay, I didn't I didn't realize I was supposed to
have a plan.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
But since Win But here's the thing. Since when did
catching a cold at a football game become a public
health crisis requiring a vaccination?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Well, first of all, they don't have a cold vaccination.
You can get a flu vaccine. He doesn't talk about this,
but there's no such thing as a cold vaccine. So
the headline, the headline to this story is this is
reported by w a FB nine in Baton Rouge. Doctors
(34:50):
worn of early spike in respiratory illnesses across Louisiana. Is
that a that's a headline? That is that really spike?
Is that is that informative? Maybe do they know what
the spike's from. I just told you cold like symptoms.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Because doctor orso said changes in weather activities or being
in proximity to others.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
We haven't really had a change in whether we haven't
really had a big drop in And by the way,
just changing the weather doesn't actually give you cold. It
can cause sinus problems because you have a change in pressure.
But that's temporary, okay, it's it's not a cold. And
then he goes on to say, I just you know,
I just I don't like folks that use fear, right, okay,
(35:39):
or or being all dramatic about something that is just ordinary.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
It's just ordinary. It doesn't make everyone you.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Gotta freak out. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Anyway, he goes on to say that there is a
new COVID variant, okay, called razor blade throat. Now, now, wow,
that I mean that it comes up with that.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
But now look, we all have had a sore throat,
stripped throat and it feels like there are razor blades,
you know, it feels it feels like it's just.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Burning right throat raw.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Sure, but he says this is a new COVID variant
that they are calling razor blade throat.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Except that variant's been out for about a year. The
razor blade variant's been out for about a.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Year, and so you have to wonder, is this doctor
you know, there was a lot of controversy here, see
because he's saying he's saying that in Louisiana, most patients
need a prescription from their doctor to get a vaccination.
Apparently for this COVID variant, razor blade throat. You have
to wonder, is this whole article targeting the whole political
(36:42):
issue of where doctor Cassidy, Senator Cassidy said that the
Louisiana Surgeon General should write a blanket prescription all Louisianas
to get a vaccine, a COVID vaccine, if they wish
to have one.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
I bet it is, But I also bet it's more
that you have a reporter or a Simon editor, a
news director at the station going we got to do something,
We gotta do something. What am I going to do today?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Oh oh, I see the resptory spike. Oh, let's go
get a doctor to do this. And they find a
doctor that's willing to tell them what they want.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
To hear razor blade throat.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
It's awful. Let's play a game, come out, black battlesuit,
shall we say?
Speaker 3 (37:23):
So?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
As we were flying back from New York, you and
I were talking about law schools and which law schools
have had the most Supreme Court justices. We did and
y you said you said you thought Texas has had
a Supreme Court justice. All I No, Texas never had
a Supreme Court justice.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:39):
So which law schools have had the most Supreme Court
justices in American history?
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Yale?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Yale number two nine Supreme Court justices graduated from Yale,
Harvard number one eighteen Supreme Court justices graduated from Harvard, Stanford, Stanford.
I'm going to give it to you because it's tied
for fifth with two Supreme Court justices from Stanford. Notre Dame. No,
Notre Dame has only had one.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Okay, Oh, the University of Texas.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yeah, University of Texas has had one. So you were
wrong in the game. Wait wait, yeah, because it's not
the it's not the most because we've got they had one.
They had one. One, they had one, Tom Clark. So
you were right on the plane. You're just wrong on
the game. But yes, you were right on the plane.
I was wrong on the plane.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
I got you.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
I got That's that's just the whole repate of this game.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Fair enough, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Other law school, Yeah, you've got the top two law schools.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Miami, Miami.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
No, who am I missing here?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Georgetown Georgetown? No, I think they had one.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
George Washington, Washington and League. No, well, no, I would
say George Washington, gw ogw No, Washington in Lee.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
There you go, they've had two.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Let's see here, Washington and Lee. American University Law Nope, No, okay,
I'm out. So here's it's this is kind of a
hard game because it's really most of the Supreme Court
justices went to either Harvard or Yale, and you got those.
So eighteen at Harvard, two nine at Yale. Number three
was Columbia University.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
They had four. You've had Litchfield Law School, which doesn't
exist anymore, they've had three. Then you have Albany, Cincinnati, Cumberland, Michigan,
Northwestern Stanford, and Washington Lee. All of them have had
two Supreme Court justices. No other school in the country's
had more than two. So you had the University of
Texas they had one to Clark and tu Lane had one,
(39:48):
Chief Justice Edward White. Those are the local schools.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
All right, fantastic. It must have been a long time
ago for two Lane.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Chief Justice ed White. Yes, it was a while back.
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So what I'm saying is is that you've got another person, yes, uh,
that has become ill in Louisiana from you only get
this flesh eating bacteria Louisiana by either the result of
an infected wound, yes, so you know you got to
check that out right, or consuming tainted seafood, oh my,
(41:47):
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Speaker 1 (41:49):
Oh my.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
So there was a fifth person now in the state
to die from this flesh I know this sounds sensational, yeah,
as a headline flesh eating bacteria area, right, But apparently
it's something. It's something that's present in terms of the
risk each and every year. But only only one person
(42:11):
a year in Louisiana dies from a flesher cooked of
this undercooked seafood issue. Anyway, in Florida it's much bigger,
much bigger. They've got multiple cases in Florida. So apparently
when the water temperature is higher at this time of
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Be so you can you can breathe well, I mean
it's the same temperature it is usually, it's just this
time of year you get warmer water.
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Right, You've got the coastal waters are a little
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Speaker 1 (01:00):
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Speaker 4 (01:03):
So the City of New Orleans, Noleans is considering an
amendment to their city charter. Okay, and it's it's more
it's more aspirational than anything else. But what members of
the city council are asking for, they're asking for the
voters to approve an amendment to the city charter to
(01:24):
protect people with a conviction history can protect them from
what arbitrarily and unreasonably discrimination against them. So they call
this the Fair Chance Amendment, and they say it is
going to serve as a declaration of the city's support
(01:47):
of giving people with past convictions a second chance. So
it will it will be amended. They will amend the
municipal the New Orleans Municipal Bill of Rights. There's a
bill of rights. New Orleans has written a bill of rights.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
You knew this, Yeah, but I just have a feeling
I all those things are actually rights, some of the
I have a feeling most that's actually privileges.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Okay, So this is largely aspirational right to say, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Because how can you tell someone that they have to
hire somebody who's been convicted of crimes? Maybe not just
one crime, maybe multiple crimes. Because again, when you look
at the crime stats, most crimes are committed by people
who've already been arrested for committing other crimes. So if
you're trying to make.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Sure I've got these numbers, here.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Go ahead. I'm just saying that, if you're trying to
make sure that you're hiring good people, sometimes you will
look at you know what, this person's been in jail
three four times for assault, for rape, for a bunch
of other things. I don't think I want that person
around my other employees.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
But there are many people who get out of jail
and say they are constantly turned down for jobs. It's
a problem, can't find housing because that they say they
were they are being discriminated against due to their status
as a And then this news news article. It says,
a formally incarcerated person.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Okay, for having been a convicted criminal.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
But at the same time, let's look at the numbers.
And they got the numbers right here. All right, one
in three Americans has some sort of criminal history.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh wow. And that that is.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
According to the National Conference of State Legislature. So roughly
forty five million Americans have a misdemeanor conviction or convictions.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Oh can misdemeanor? All right?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Nineteen million?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Does that? Does that include traffic violations misdemeanors if I guess,
if it rises to that occasion in that particular jurisdiction. Okay,
But nevertheless, nineteen million have a felony conviction. So and
and by the way, according to the Department of Justice,
Louisiana was ranked second in the nation for imprisonment rates
(04:06):
in twenty twenty two, right behind Mississippi. Okay, So the
question is, I, look, I've got no problem with aspirations.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
But let's be honest. Aspirations don't keep communities safe. Aspirations
don't protect your family. When a repeat offender, you know,
might might get a job in a position that because
you're being because that employer may be aspirational. And look,
(04:38):
I believe in second chances as well. I do too,
don't get me wrong, but.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
This should be something that the government starts to mandate
because I guarantee you. Let's say, so, let's say you
put this bill of rights in for New Orleans. Oh,
you've got to hire criminals. Okay, So I get, you know,
a convicted rapist that comes in and they're they're one
to the I wanted to be an employee in my company,
(05:03):
and now I have to hire that convicted rapist. You
don't because the city of New Orleans is telling me
I got to hire a convicted race Well.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
It's aspirational. Obviously you can make that decision.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And if it's aspirational, then why you wasting all of
our time. Your job is not to be putting up
little sunshine quotes on the wall. Your job is to
be telling. It is to make sure that the roads
are clean, that the street lights are on that the
drainage ditches are clear, that the trash is picked up.
That's your damn job when run the city. I don't
need you telling me little poetry about butterflies. I don't
(05:36):
need aspirational for my city council. I need functional.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
No, I understand, but with significant amount of their constituents
who are have formally incarcerated individuals okay, who apparently are
having difficulty getting employment within the City of New Orleans
are getting housing in the City of New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, so that's a big is committing crime.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
But it's the same time I think the city council
is doing their job.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
No, they're not. They're not doing their job.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
They're not representing their constituents, the needs of their constituents,
the needs of their constituents. Say, look, when I get
out of jail, you know, the City of New Orleans
ought to make a statement. And that's really what this
is all about. I'm not saying that it makes one
bit of difference. But at the same time, government, if it.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Doesn't make one a bit of a difference, then why
are they doing. They're spending time doing something, and every
minute they spend doing something that doesn't make a difference
is a minute they could be spending doing something that
does make a difference. You know, what would help these
folks is if we had less crime on the streets,
so that there would be less fewer people actually being
thrown into prison. So what can the city do to
(06:46):
cut down on crime in the first place. Maybe we
need to do a surge of police officers into certain areas,
which is part of what they've been doing, which has
been lowering crime. See that's an action that I can
actually benefit future generations because then you're ending up a
few people getting into this mess in the first place.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
But do you think that the city council is saying
with this what do they call this again? Hold on?
They call this the the Fair Chance Amendment, the Fair
Chance Amendment. Let's not what it is, Okay, but hold on.
If these city council members believe that those who are
(07:25):
formally incarcerated have been arbitrarily and unreasonably discriminated against, okay,
and they pass this fair Chance Amendment.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Wait, why were they discriminated because they were in jail
for prison for crimes. That's not arbitrary, but that's not unfair.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
But at the same time, people do turn their lives around.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
They do, but that should be up to the individual
judgment of the person doing the hiring. If you're on
the city council and you've got somebody that you think
is being unfairly discriminated against, then hire them yourselves. Your
job is not to substitute your judgment for that of
the people who run businesses in the city of New Orleans.
That's a socialist mindset. When you start thinking that because
(08:05):
you've been elected to the city council you are so
much wiser than everybody else in the city, then you
do not belong on the city council anymore. You aren't
smarter than everybody else. So you're just know, do you
think to some degree by passing this fair Chance amendment?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
And of course it's.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
And again if it's just aspiration, okay.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
But if you pass this this fair chance are do
you think that you are saying crime doesn't matter?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I mean you think what.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You're saying is what you're saying by passing this is
if you are concerned about someone who's been in jail
recommitting a crime, but this time against your employees, you're
a bigot. That's what the city Council is saying with this,
they're calling business owners in the city of New Orleans
bigots for having gone. You know what, I don't know
if I want to have somebody who's been arrested for
(08:56):
rape around my female employees, maybe that's not a good idea.
And the city Council's like, we know better than you. Jack,
that's not your job. And when you start being that
arrogant in office, it is time for you to get
out of office.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
But people do deserve a second chance, and that's up.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
To the people who are doing the hiring to give
it to them of their own free will. Let's get
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has been found guilty on charges of bribery, conspiracy, and
(09:35):
obstruction of justice. Gary Haynes had run the fifteenth Judicial
District Attorney's pre trial diversion program. He used his position
to get bribes from businesses involved in that program. Two
other co conspirators and a businessman had already played guilty
and testified against Hayes in the trial. Ten years ago.
Hayes' wife was convicted of bribery in a separate case
and spent three years in prison herself.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Oh do you think he got a fair chance? Do
you think she got a fair chance? Maybe they needed
the fair chance amendment.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
See that's the whole point here. I mean, that's going
to be up to their future employer. But if you're
a future DA and you hire this guy again to
run a pre trial diversion program, I think the voters
have a right to go. I don't think you're making
the right choice here. Second thing you needed, but fromorrow.
There has been a partial settlement reached in the collapse
of the hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans six years ago.
Attorneys for four hundred workers, bystanders and business owners say
(10:24):
they've reached a deal with the hotel's owner for the
damages suffered by those individuals. The details of the deal
were not released and are not expected to be released
to the public, and this doesn't include the lawsuits against engineers, contractors,
and a steel manufacturer. Back in twenty nineteen, the top
three floors of the eighteen story building collapsed, killing three
people and injuring more and causing other businesses in the
areas to be closed.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
As look you know it may sound a little harsh,
but I think LaToya has blood on her hands here
because there were two people that died in that tragic accident.
And part of the reason was that.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Were there are three people who died in the Appay,
they're three. There was a body that was left exposed
out into the public for thirty months. Right, I thought
it was only two, but there's three. One was recovered early,
the other two were therefore.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Nevertheless, it was a failure on the part of New
Orleans City government for inspect shop.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Absolutely and the third thing you needed before tomorrow caatepair
schools are sticking with their man. The school board extended
the contract of Superintendent Keith Burton for another year. His
first one year contract was going to end on September thirtieth.
Since Burton became the superintendent, the district hast scene increases
in reading mass scores across grade levels. Board president Jasmine
Green said extending Burton's contract for another year was about
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demonstrating stability in leadership to the state school board. Burton said,
I'm humbled by the board's vote of confidence and grateful
for the opportunity to continue serving this community. Okay, yeah,
all right. Look, Kettle schools are making a turnaround, and
that's a good thing. We'll back stick around callers.
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Speaker 1 (13:15):
Welcome back to Mecca Ground Radio Steven Barr with Lewis
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Speaker 4 (13:19):
Well, Trump keeps winning and winning, It keeps winning and winning.
He said we would get tired of winning.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, and I'm not tired of I know you're very
you're exhausted from it. I'm like, I'm not tired of winning.
I'm not ever going to get tired of winning. I'm like,
I'm like, you know, Yankees fans back in the day.
I just I don't ever get tired of winning.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
But I think the economy is turning around. I think
a lot of folks simply look, you've got to have patience. Sure,
you can't just jump to conclusions here in terms of saying, well,
this isn't working for ten minutes. You know, we have
lost patients in this country. Okay, I think worldwide.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
But look what part of the Trump economy wasn't working
even for ten minutes. I mean we've been told, oh,
inflation's gonna go up. Well, inflation hasn't gone up while
Donald Trump's been in office. Oh, egg price is going
to go. Egg prices went down. Gas prices have gone
down in most states. I mean Washington States now seeing
their most expensive gas ever. But that's because of local
(14:22):
decisions there, it's not because of Donald Trumph. A whole
bunch of people are going to be fired. The only
people really being fired across the country are either illegal
aliens or government workers. The rest of the economy seems
to be doing pretty darn well. And look, I'm not
going to say that it's the boom years of the
first Trump administration yet, but there has been a lot
(14:46):
of change. With the new tariff coming in, the new
tariff structure coming in, that's a big change in how
the economy works. I think that's going to filter through.
We first had to get this Tax Cut and Job
Act that all those those tax cuts from twenty seventeen,
we had to get those renewed so that we would
keep those going. That was gonna put a little bit
(15:08):
of a pause on the economy expanding. Now that it's
been passed, I think there are businesses that are going,
you know what, we're gonna We're gonna go ahead and
expand now. So again, I haven't seen any part of
the economy that I would say, oh, that's a downturn
and that's Trump's fault.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Well, I think for a lot of folks, they say
tear us have actually increased costs.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
But the data says haven't. Wholesale wholesale prices last month,
we're actually negative.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Okay, But back on that subject about patients though, okay,
because I mean kind of switching gears here. I mean,
we live in an age where patience is dead. I
mean it's it's you know what I'm saying. And I
think it's because of social media and Twitter and Facebook
and TikTok and Instagram.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Life just goes faster. I think communications are faster, travels faster,
But it's rewiring our brains. Yeah, I mean we used
to be built on patients in this country. I mean
the founding fathers. I mean they didn't win independence overnight. Yeah,
I mean the revolution was years.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Of sacrifice and setbacks and perseverance. And I mean civil
rights I mean that didn't happen in a week. I
mean it took decades, right of of of effort and
blood and sweat and tears.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And I think you could argue it shouldn't have taken decades,
but yes it did. Patients, though, Yes, we are short
attention span theater people these days. You know, there's a
there's a trend going on online young people. They call
it They're gonna get on an airplane and they say
they're gonna raw dog the flight on the airplane. You
ever heard this, I'm gonna raw dog a flight on
(16:43):
air on the airplane. Have you heard this? No, a
raw dog?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
So what that means is they're gonna be on an
airplane and they're not gonna read a book. They're not
gonna get on their phone, they're not gonna get on
their iPad or their computer. They're just gonna sit there
for the entire flight. And you and I just took
a flight, right, You and I flew up to New York,
flew back, and we actually were in four flights, right,
So we went from Shreeport up to Atlanta. On that
(17:08):
first flight. I didn't do anything on that flight. I
just sat. I just sat.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I noticed that, but I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Right, But there are a lot of people that's like,
oh my gosh, what a hero. He's able to just
sit there and not do anything. I can't do that, man,
It wasn't a challenge. I just didn't do anything. I
didn't feel like doing anything. I just sat there and
enjoyed the flight and enjoyed some of the you know,
the quiet time of not having to be on my device,
(17:38):
not having to be writing, not having to be reading.
Just I was just sitting there. A lot of people
don't have that attention span anymore. And I think one
of the other parts about not having an attention span,
not having the ability to just be still, is that
there is anxiety that builds up and then that ultimately
(17:58):
leads to fear. Right, So a lot of people are
concerned about the Trump economy because they're not willing to
sit still for just a minute. Anxiety builds up and
then they give into fear. Oh no, the tariffs are
going to bring down the whole economy. Everything is oh doom, doom, doom,
doom doom. There's some economists who say that this is
going to cost me my job. Look, man, just sit wait,
(18:23):
wait and see you're panicking. Isn't going to make any
of this better. It doesn't. If anything, it makes your
judgment worse.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
But change if you want to change, whether you're going
to change yourself, yeah, for example, some sort of personal
growth or self improvement.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
It doesn't happen overnight.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
No, it takes time and discipline. And that's one of
the things about the tariffs, and that's why. So there's
an announcement today the Supreme Court is going to hear
the tariff's case in November, I think November fifth. And
there's a reason why that is really important because we've
just tried the tariffs at them on. But patience is
(19:02):
being persistent doing what you're doing in a persistent way.
We've just put these tariffs into place. We have not
had a chance to be patient with the tariffs and
see what they're going to do. And the courts could
completely rip out the tariffs overnight, and then all these
trade deals we've done with the entire rest of the
(19:23):
world would immediately collapse and we'd have to go figure
something else out, and it would we would lose a
lot of the leverage that Donald Trump had to make
these negotiations, and we would The biggest thing is we
wouldn't be able to practice patients with the tariffs. They'd
be gone before we could be patient about it.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Let's see the and and maybe this is a separate topic,
but we always seem to focus on you know, we're impatient,
and we always focus on what's not right. Like, for example,
Brian Kelly, the coach of the LSU Tigers, he got
a question from a reporter was basically saying, you know,
what are you going to do about. I think it
was his was I think the question was the defense
(20:03):
gave up too many yards in the third quarter of
this game over the weekend, okay, And he wasn't having
any of it, and he got very heated, and he said, look,
you just focus on the fact that we won the game. Right,
it's a w right, And yes, these other things need
to continue to be worked on, but it's a win.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And in the third week of the season, it's a win.
I mean LSU walked off that feel victorious, right.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
And and and this is you know again, I think
you look at President Trump. A lot of the criticism
of President Trump in terms of his policies, in terms
of what it means and for example, you know, deporting
folks and though that's that's means spirited, that's not what
America is, et cetera. And you don't know what you're
(20:53):
and and some of the things he says, yeah that
some of it might be a little bit out there,
but at the end of the if you give it
a little time, right, Like for example, back in twenty fifteen,
when he came down the Golden Escalator, he started talking
about illegal immigration.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Up until then, no one had ever talked about that.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
But well, I mean people had talked about illegal certainly
not to the degree that we came about it. But
if folks had been patient, instead of you know, just
lashing out at him and saying that he's racist, he
doesn't like brown skinned people. He thinks that that all
you know, Mexicans are are rapists and criminals. Instead of
(21:34):
doing their own research and figuring it out right, they
jumped to conclusion.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
We're trying to figure out where he was coming from.
There was no desire, certainly among the press to figure
out where Donald Trump was coming from, why he was
thinking things the way he was thinking. There's just no
curiosity about that.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I guess all I'm saying is is that, yes, we
have lost our patients in this country and some times
planting siegs, you've got it, you've got to water it,
you've got to care for it, and then one day
you got this bountiful hot harvest.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Right, Okay, That's all I'm saying. Well, and when we
get that, I won't be tired of winning. I just
won't be because I'm patient. I'm patient with my winning.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Good I'm glad to hear that we'll be back.
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Welcome back to American Guy Radio, Stephen.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Okay, so apparently the Louisiana National Guard is not mobilized,
not ready quite yet to go into action because you.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Know there's all this to go into action for what
within the.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
State of Louisiana. Because the Trump administry, I.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Should say, the Louisiana National Guards ready to jump into
action at a moment's notice. We had a storm, they'd
show up. I say, the Louisiana National Guards a bunch
of professionals. They know what they're doing. They're ready to
jump into action anytime you call on them.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
No, they certainly are. However, the Louisiana National Guard director
of Public Affairs said, and I quote, we are not
mobilized in Louisiana. If and when we are ordered, we
will support. We do not speculate about potential operations and
their associated costs.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Okay, So they're ready. If they get called boom, they go.
They just haven't been called, and so they aren't. They
aren't gearing up, they aren't ready to I mean, because
why would you do that. In the military, you don't
start preparing for a mission that hasn't been given to
you yet. You do what you're supposed to do in
the moment. You don't try and guess what your your
superior officers are going to tell you to do. So
(24:11):
he's absolutely right on that. Until and unless the President
of the United States and the governor of the state
of Louisiana say we're going to mobilize the National Guard
and send them into New Orleans and Baton Rouge and Shreeport.
They aren't putting up hotel rooms in New Orleans, Baton
Rouge and Streeport for the National Guard. That that's just
not what they do.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
So if he's I guess the National Guard's going into
Memphis right now? Yeah, Apparently there was a court order
that said that he could not send troops or National
Guard troops into Chicago or into Illinois. I think Governor
Pritzker may have won this court battle.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
That would be a just a judge saying that it'll
go up to court and and the and again. This
one of those where it's kind of get slapped down.
These these padly little judge just think that they know
more than the President of the United States, and they
get slapped down time and time and time again. If
the President orders them in and he has just cause
(25:09):
to do it, then he'll be able to do it.
You don't get to just block it because you hate
Trump well and not how the judicial system is supposed
to work.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
And I know there's a lot of folks that say,
we don't need an occupation, so to speak, since the
left might put it.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
It's not an occupant. I gotta tell you something. They're
parts of New Orleans that are already occupied.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Well, no, louis Yeah, by criminality go, I mean Louisiana
has some of the most we do. I mean we
have some of the most dangerous cities in the country,
New Orleans, Baton Rouge.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
And I do want to be fair that the crime
in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Streetport. While back in
twenty twenty three, twenty twenty two it was at the
top of the charts for the entire country, the crime
in all three cities has come down, especially in Shreaport,
but also in New Orleans, and in Baton Rouge it
has been coming down. Baton Rouge is probably not as
fast as the other two.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
No, no, no, And you're right. I mean, when the guard says, hey,
we're not moized, that's not a denial. No, that's professionalism,
it's right, that's discipline. That's the military saying we don't
move until the order comes down. But when it does,
they will be will be ready.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Let's stick deep, going down, down down. So I ran
across an article in the Center Square. They say the
city of New Orleans has poured tens of millions of
dollars into building and subsizing housing since twenty twenty, but
the city's real estate market remains among the worst in
the country for metropolitan areas. They say the city is
(26:35):
putting millions of dollars into building quote affordable housing, affordable housing.
As of twenty twenty four, the city committed fifty four
million to produce one two hundred new units by twenty
twenty five, and has committed sixty two million to fund
eleven projects for rehabilitation or new construction, including twenty one
million in federal HUD funds. Currently, eleven projects are still
(26:57):
waiting to secure developer contracts with twenty five millions attached.
All right, So so you use the word subsidy. That's
what they that's what that's what the city, that's what
the Center Square us. Okay, but see subsidies. This is
this the big idea from government bureaucrats who think they're
smarter than the market. Right, They want to subsidize some
(27:18):
economic activity.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
They it never works. Never, they can't because government has
no business trying to do what only free people and
free markets can do. That is allocate resources, set priorities,
and create prosperity. Government does not create wealth, right, and
government can't create affordable housing. Government can create slums, but
(27:44):
it can't create affordable housing. Look, we're talking about more than.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
A million, I'm sorry, one hundred million dollars in funding
for building or rebuilding houses in New Orleans. That's what
the city government of New Orleans has been spending. The
city government is paying for. That's not private developers. The government.
And by the way, same government's looking at what one
hundred million dollars budget shortfall next year. I can kind
of think of a pretty easy way to solve that
budget problem. Just cut out all the spending for all
(28:09):
the subsidized housing.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Well, certainly, But you know how you fix the affordable
housing issue. You know how you fix that.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Well, I've got a couple of ideas.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Population, Well that's one bringing people in to that market.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
All right. Yeah, the government can't bring people in. I
know that.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
I know that, But I'm saying that to the extent
that you have more people seeking affordable housing means you
will build. They will be building more housing. That's how
the market works.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
So not only is the city government giving out money
to developers to create affordable housing, but that money isn't
actually making the housing more affordable. This is again from
the Center Square. Many of the apartments build with city
or federal help rent for prices far above what many
New Orleanians can afford. The infol Base and apartments constructed
with public dollars list one bedroom unit starting at one
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three h thirty nine dollars a month. Saint Bernard's Circle apartment,
subsidized with one point five million from the city, rent
for one thy two hundred dollars for a one bedroom
and one thousand, five hundred for a two bedroom. Under
Hudd's Affordability standard, which caps rent at thirty percent of income.
A renter would need to earn about sixty thousand dollars
a year to afford a two bedroom unit at Saint Bernard.
(29:20):
So despite all of this spending, New Orleans, housing isn't
even affordable here. So how do you make housing more affordable?
There are two ways I will argue you make housing
more affordable. Safety and the free market.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Safety.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
All right, so let's try. Let's start out of this. Okay,
I'm going to argue crime in a city will drive
up the overall cost of housing in that city even
as it drives down home values and real crime area.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
I disagree.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Here's out. I disagree. Here's out. First, crime will drive
down home values in high crime areas. We both agree
on that.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
No, it when it drives it down in high crime areas,
it drives it down across across the city, across the community,
even in non high crime areas.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
But the people who want to move out of that
crime area, they want to move to another part of
the city is a little safer, yes, or they move
or they'll leave the city all together. But if they
want to move somewhere else in the city that's safer,
what then happens is you drive up the demand in
those parkets of the city. I can see that, Okay,
so they've got to live somewhere. So you're driving up
demand in specific safe neighborhoods while driving down demand and
(30:27):
dangerous ones. You end up with super expensive neighborhoods and
super poor ones and not much in between, which is
part of what New Orleans has got.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
But that's only if those folks that are trying to
first of all, that they can even afford to move
out of high crime areas, if they're going to stay
within that same community. But many times they move across
state lines, or they move a parish or two over.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
That's right, And so then you're driving up the travel
costs for those people you are.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
But what I'm saying to you is it drives down.
It drives the property values down, especially every now.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
The free market will lower housing costs if you let it.
If you decrease government regulations, developers will build new housing
to meet the demand. If you increase government regulations and
interference in the free market, then the cost of development
goes up, and the developers will pass those costs onto
buyers and renters. Well.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
And if the government is focused on low income housing.
For example, the builders in that community, they're not going
to even target low to mid income families, so their
government's doing it for they're going to target the high income,
more expensive, wealthier neighborhoods because.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Why compete with the government, And so it ends up
nobody's doing it. Nobody's building low income housing even though
the government says they are.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Because the government's subsidizing.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
It, and that process drives up the cost. It's counterintuitive,
but shouldn't we learn by now.
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Speaker 4 (33:13):
Stephen Power, Win Batton, Rude BRUEs doctor orso doctor orso
with the Open health Care Clinic. I don't know who
that is, but this reporter found this doctor, and this
doctor said that if you've noticed that folks are sick
with cold like symptoms, it may be because of changes
(33:40):
in weather or activities, or even being in proximity to
others at football games. Now, now, first of all, well,
I mean, the only reason why it could be all
of those things, and that has been true since the
dawn of time.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Well, I mean, the only reason by being around other
people you get cold like symptoms is if they had cold.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
But you're always around people, every year, every year, around people.
But he goes on to say, you might want to
think about your vaccination plan.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
My vaccination plan.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Yeah, vaccination plan.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Okay, I didn't I didn't realize I was supposed to
have a plan.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
But since Win But here's the thing. Since when did
catching a cold at a football game become a public
health crisis requiring a vaccination?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Well, first of all, they don't have a cold vaccination.
You can get a flu vaccine. He doesn't talk about this,
but there's no such thing as a cold vaccine. So
the headline, the headline to this story is this is
reported by w a FB nine in Baton Rouge. Doctors
(34:50):
worn of early spike in respiratory illnesses across Louisiana. Is
that a that's a headline? That is that really spike?
Is that is that informative? Maybe do they know what
the spike's from. I just told you cold like symptoms.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Because doctor orso said changes in weather activities or being
in proximity to others.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
We haven't really had a change in whether we haven't
really had a big drop in And by the way,
just changing the weather doesn't actually give you cold. It
can cause sinus problems because you have a change in pressure.
But that's temporary, okay, it's it's not a cold. And
then he goes on to say, I just you know,
I just I don't like folks that use fear, right, okay,
(35:39):
or or being all dramatic about something that is just ordinary.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
It's just ordinary. It doesn't make everyone you.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Gotta freak out. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Anyway, he goes on to say that there is a
new COVID variant, okay, called razor blade throat. Now, now, wow,
that I mean that it comes up with that.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
But now look, we all have had a sore throat,
stripped throat and it feels like there are razor blades,
you know, it feels it feels like it's just.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Burning right throat raw.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Sure, but he says this is a new COVID variant
that they are calling razor blade throat.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Except that variant's been out for about a year. The
razor blade variant's been out for about a.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Year, and so you have to wonder, is this doctor
you know, there was a lot of controversy here, see
because he's saying he's saying that in Louisiana, most patients
need a prescription from their doctor to get a vaccination.
Apparently for this COVID variant, razor blade throat. You have
to wonder, is this whole article targeting the whole political
(36:42):
issue of where doctor Cassidy, Senator Cassidy said that the
Louisiana Surgeon General should write a blanket prescription all Louisianas
to get a vaccine, a COVID vaccine, if they wish
to have one.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
I bet it is, But I also bet it's more
that you have a reporter or a Simon editor, a
news director at the station going we got to do something,
We gotta do something. What am I going to do today?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Oh oh, I see the resptory spike. Oh, let's go
get a doctor to do this. And they find a
doctor that's willing to tell them what they want.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
To hear razor blade throat.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
It's awful. Let's play a game, come out, black battlesuit,
shall we say?
Speaker 3 (37:23):
So?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
As we were flying back from New York, you and
I were talking about law schools and which law schools
have had the most Supreme Court justices. We did and
y you said you said you thought Texas has had
a Supreme Court justice. All I No, Texas never had
a Supreme Court justice.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:39):
So which law schools have had the most Supreme Court
justices in American history?
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Yale?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Yale number two nine Supreme Court justices graduated from Yale,
Harvard number one eighteen Supreme Court justices graduated from Harvard, Stanford, Stanford.
I'm going to give it to you because it's tied
for fifth with two Supreme Court justices from Stanford. Notre Dame. No,
Notre Dame has only had one.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Okay, Oh, the University of Texas.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yeah, University of Texas has had one. So you were
wrong in the game. Wait wait, yeah, because it's not
the it's not the most because we've got they had one.
They had one. One, they had one, Tom Clark. So
you were right on the plane. You're just wrong on
the game. But yes, you were right on the plane.
I was wrong on the plane.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
I got you.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
I got That's that's just the whole repate of this game.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Fair enough, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Other law school, Yeah, you've got the top two law schools.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Miami, Miami.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
No, who am I missing here?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Georgetown Georgetown? No, I think they had one.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
George Washington, Washington and League. No, well, no, I would
say George Washington, gw ogw No, Washington in Lee.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
There you go, they've had two.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Let's see here, Washington and Lee. American University Law Nope, No, okay,
I'm out. So here's it's this is kind of a
hard game because it's really most of the Supreme Court
justices went to either Harvard or Yale, and you got those.
So eighteen at Harvard, two nine at Yale. Number three
was Columbia University.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
They had four. You've had Litchfield Law School, which doesn't
exist anymore, they've had three. Then you have Albany, Cincinnati, Cumberland, Michigan,
Northwestern Stanford, and Washington Lee. All of them have had
two Supreme Court justices. No other school in the country's
had more than two. So you had the University of
Texas they had one to Clark and tu Lane had one,
(39:48):
Chief Justice Edward White. Those are the local schools.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
All right, fantastic. It must have been a long time
ago for two Lane.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Chief Justice ed White. Yes, it was a while back.
We'll be back.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
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(41:47):
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Speaker 1 (41:49):
Oh my.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
So there was a fifth person now in the state
to die from this flesh I know this sounds sensational, yeah,
as a headline flesh eating bacteria area, right, But apparently
it's something. It's something that's present in terms of the
risk each and every year. But only only one person
(42:11):
a year in Louisiana dies from a flesher cooked of
this undercooked seafood issue. Anyway, in Florida it's much bigger,
much bigger. They've got multiple cases in Florida. So apparently
when the water temperature is higher at this time of
(42:33):
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Speaker 1 (42:36):
Be so you can you can breathe well, I mean
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Right, You've got the coastal waters are a little
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